Description

Full Length Play

Drama

Accolades:

WINNER! Best Foreign Play by New York Drama Critics Circle

A wealthy woman returns to her debt ridden home town and offers a sum greater than they have ever imagined to help out. But there is a condition: she wants the life of a villager who years ago had caused her to be expelled from town in disgrace.

Ringing denial of this absurd demand is followed by the gradual corruption of everyone in town. He is murdered and money is passed over his body to the town. The lady leaves with a fantastic entourage and with the coffin of her old lover.

REVIEWS:

"Stinging... [with] astonishing power."

The New York Herald Tribune

"A devastating drama."

The New York Times

Premiere Production:The Visit was first produced in New York at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on May 5th, 1958, under the direction of Peter Brook.

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A wealthy woman returns to her debt ridden home town and offers a sum greater than they have ever imagined to help out. But there is a condition: she wants the life of a villager who years ago had caused her to be expelled from town in disgrace. Ringing denial of this absurd demand is followed by the gradual corruption of everyone in town. He is murdered and money is passed over his body to the town. The lady leaves with a fantastic entourage and with the coffin of her old lover.